The taxi from Paphos Airport took eleven minutes, and by the time I’d dropped my bag in the check-in lounge, I’d already heard the sound I’d be hearing for the next week: water, moving somewhere out of earshot. Asimina Suites sits at the end of a string of beachfront resorts on the southern edge of Paphos, Cyprus, and the near-constant trickle of it is the first thing you notice. The hotel was just out of a soft reopening, with a brand-new fifth floor of suites and a rooftop bar above it, and the place felt scrubbed and quiet in the way a new hotel should.
I’d planned the trip as a short, low-stakes week: one hotel, one beach, the town on foot when I felt like it. The booking was straightforward. B&B, weekly rates from £1319 per person for two sharing a Junior Suite, bookable through Asimina Suites’ own site. That price is the anchor for everything else in this review, so I’ll keep coming back to it.
Location and the walk to Paphos
The hotel sits at the far end of the beachfront boulevard, which is exactly why I chose it. One sister property is further south; beyond that, a small blue-domed chapel and a stretch of undeveloped coast. The sea-facing land right in front of the building belongs to Asimina, so the sandy beach with its cabanas, and the walkway across the rocks for a proper plunge into the water, feel private in a way the shared-resort strips elsewhere on this coast don’t. Breakwaters keep the bay calm enough for swimming even when the sea is doing something.
Getting to Paphos town is an easy taxi or a bus. The beachfront walk is the better option if you have the time: the path along the front of the resorts to the harbour takes around 30 minutes, and it’s the best part of the location. Along the inland road behind the hotel there are a handful of small shops, bars and restaurants, plus a car rental office, so you can get most things without going into town at all.
If you only have one day, skip the town on foot and take a taxi: 30 minutes each way is a lot of walking when the beach is right there. If you have the week, do the walk on day two, once you’re over the jet lag, and let the harbour be your anchor point for the rest of the trip.
The rooms, and which side to book
Every room at Asimina is a suite, which matters more than the label suggests: there’s no FOMO between room types the way there is at most hotels. I was put on the new fifth floor. The suites there are the same design as the floors below, apart from the ground-floor private-pool suites, but the height gives a cleaner view across the palms to the sea, and that’s the difference I’d pay for.
The layout is two spaces divided by sliding doors, both opening onto a wide balcony. On entering: minibar, storage, a big desk and table area. Behind that, a sofa, a coffee table and a TV. The bedroom has real storage, a comfortable bed with good linen, and the bathroom has twin sinks, marble walls, a walk-in shower and, in some suites, a bath. Nothing is design-forward, but everything is kept well.
One tip I’d take seriously: request a room on the right-hand side building. The balconies there get the morning sun, and I spent most mornings on one of them with coffee from the in-room machine, before breakfast, listening to the birds and the water. That’s the whole point of the higher floor, and the side of the building decides whether you actually get it.
The food at Estia and Kymata
There are four restaurants and three bars, plus 24-hour room service, which is more than one person can reasonably use in a week. What you can eat where depends on your package: the buffet at Estia is the base, and from half-board up you can also dine at the à la carte restaurants, with reservations required.
The breakfast at Estia is the one I’d defend hardest. The Cypriot table alone is a reason to get up early: pastries, cheeses, jams, carob syrup, the usual things done properly, and the rest of the spread goes well beyond it. For full meals, the stations cover a wide range, from Asian-fusion to roast meats to salads and desserts, and the neighbouring pool bar handles a light lunch when that’s all you want.
My actual favourite place to eat there was Kymata, on a shaded deck at the far end of the resort, the sea a stone’s throw away. The setting does a lot of the work in the evening light, but the food holds up on its own: fresh ingredients, local menus on most nights, and occasionally traditional Cypriot dancing as the room winds down. That’s the version of the hotel I’d tell a friend about.
The rooftop bar and the new fifth floor
The 2026 addition is the rooftop bar above the fifth floor, and it’s the right kind of thing for this time of day. Soft light, a view that doesn’t ask you to do anything with it, cocktails mixed properly, and for anyone not drinking, a decent freshly pressed orange juice. I had my sundowners there most evenings, which is a cheap way to say I was there every day.
Below it, the VIP’s Bar is the more classic room, with live entertainment some nights and a separate, quieter corner with a pool table and the big games on TV. It’s a homely kind of luxury, not a pretentious one, and that distinction is doing a lot of work in this review.
Facilities: the spa, the pools, and the art class nobody asked for
Two large outdoor pools, a heated indoor pool, the Elixir Spa with its thalassotherapy treatments, saunas and steam rooms, and a gym that has both cardio and strength equipment. There’s a tennis court on site, and the sister property next door has indoor and outdoor bowling greens you can book.
The part I didn’t expect to care about is the daily list of in-house activities: wine and painting workshops, aqua aerobics, live music evenings. I signed up for one art class and it was, against all reason, the thing I talked about most with the people I was staying with. There’s also a salon and a small on-site market for sunscreen, snacks and the small things a week in one place uses up.
Even with all that on site, plan to spend a couple of days off the hotel and into the rest of Cyprus. The hotel is best treated as a base, not the whole trip.
Getting there and what the price actually covers
Flights into Paphos run from a wide range of UK airports with Jet2, including its new Gatwick route; Jet2 Holidays packages include a seven-night stay, flights and a 22kg luggage allowance. The B&B weekly price is from £1319 per person for two sharing a Junior Suite with a land view; sea-view suites cost more, and the Executive tier adds private pools, airport lounge access and transfers, and elevated dining. The Constantinou Bros Hotel Collection also runs Athena Royal Beach Hotel, Pioneer Beach Hotel and Athena Beach Hotel along the same shoreline, all of them part of the same family operation.
For what that number buys: a week in an all-suite, adult-only hotel, spring through autumn, with a private beach, a 15-minute airport transfer, and a breakfast spread I’d fly back for on its own. If the trip is a week, that’s a fair price. If it’s four nights, do the maths on the half-board packages instead, because the dining is good enough to make that the better spend.
The trade-off, and what I’d change
If I did this trip again, I’d book the sea-view suite on the right-hand side building and skip the land-view Junior Suite, which is the default at the £1319 price point. The difference in the view is the difference in the trip. And I’d take the walk to the harbour on the second day, not the first, because the first day is for being tired and not deciding anything.
The hotel is not worth a detour if your Cyprus plan is the ancient sites and the west coast villages; for that, it’s a base you pass through. It is worth a full week if the plan is one beach, one table at Kymata, and a rooftop bar in the evening light, with the town an easy taxi away whenever you need it. That’s the version I’d do again.
